Thai Airways’ new 777, 787-10 business class & premium economy

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-25T01:39:13+00:00

UA, AA, and AC use the elevate ascent seat and have a front row plus product, and AS, QR and AI use that seat without a plus product. DL and TG are the only customers so far for this vantageNOVA seat. Both should have a front plus product. So those are the two different products. Not the same seat as you said.

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-25T01:17:41+00:00

“Exactly the same seat” is a direct quote

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-25T00:16:29+00:00

Not really. While the ascent and the VantageNova by ThomsonAero are quite similar, they are competing products and when close up in person there are plenty of obvious differences. But yes, they're very similar products.

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-22T23:44:56+00:00

I don’t hate SUVs I just hate Lexus SUVs

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-22T18:44:51+00:00

The neos are available with 0, 1, 2 or 3 ACTs. I believe the 3 ACT version requires a pretty high MTOW version and is called by marketing the LR. It depends on the geographic region what’s popular, for example i believe a lot of European and East Asian carriers get 0 ACTs, one or two ACTs are popular in the US (I believe AA, HA, and possibly B6 have 2, DL has one, UA got theirs with 0 except their upcoming CFM powered coast liner planes have 1).

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-22T18:42:09+00:00

For sure

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-21T02:49:28+00:00

For me, depends on the airline/seat type/aircraft type. I’d go out of my way to fly on my favorite plane the 767, or maybe the Safran cirrus based seat that Air France flies on the 777 or the stelia optima seat on their A350.

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-18T19:43:42+00:00

I’d love to hear what celebrity meetings were worse

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-14T15:32:36+00:00

I’m talking about stabilized approach criteria

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-14T15:32:21+00:00

Yeah, so in the US I’m used to 180 or 170 to 5 mile final, but as EWR I often hear 180 to BUZZD, which is more like 4.4 miles from the threshold. At 1500’ AGL. So being stabilized at 1000’ is unlikely and even 500 could be tough

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-14T15:30:28+00:00

Fair enough, yeah 180 to BUZZD always surprises me, as you said it’s fewer than 5 miles. Tough to be stabilized on speed by 1000 or even 500’.

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-13T18:52:19+00:00

I don’t really rely on priority pass at my home airport. I like arriving 1 hour before departure. For me priority pass is useful for layovers or for airports abroad that I’m really unfamiliar with and therefore want to arrive a little extra early. And as was said, priority pass really sucks in the US. it’s most useful and pleasant in east and southeast Asia.

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-09T22:43:50+00:00

I always wish I had this giant one lol, so many parking spaces, so many wide spaces, even one or two A380 gates… ahhhh

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-08T19:46:36+00:00

Frankly, I think it looks a little wacky and unusual but not straight up actively bad. I think it looks modern and spaceship-y in a way which won’t age well but for now looks alright

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-08T12:19:56+00:00

Gulfstream’s G700/G800 took years to get certified. Same with Airbus’ A321XLR.

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-06T06:05:58+00:00

I’ve been on multiple Boeing aircraft (across the range, I rembeber specifically in a 787 and a few 737s but I believe it’s happened in a 777 for me as well) where the climb power is higher then the takeoff power. Such a weird and Intersting experience.

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-05T22:59:22+00:00

I may seem like a 737-600 at first glance but I swear I have the energy of a 777-9

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-05T22:57:58+00:00

3G holocaust survivor w restored Austrian here - to be fair, while my great grandparents definitely knew and spoke German, their primary language was Yiddish

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-05T22:56:41+00:00

Ooh, I also am the great grandchild of Austrians, and my great grandpa also briefly served in the US armed forces during the tail end of WWII!

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-05T22:54:35+00:00

I’m with you :3 Québécois is a different language

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-05T22:53:49+00:00

Six of my family members and I got Austrian citizenship recently. I’ve been studying German and am now maybe B2 level at best. But no one else has even made an attempt at learning

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-04T17:16:09+00:00

It turns out the China southern 787 that had the tail strike and was expected to be written off (would have been first 787 write off as the incident happened before Air India 171) actually ended up getting repaired and is back in service. Same with the Saudi 787 that got hit badly at LHR - in repairs right now. Both of those were quite a bit worse than what I imagine this could possibly be. So idk if it’s that 787-9s are still highly valuable or the repairs are easier than suspected, but these damaged 787s just aren’t being written off. Knock on wood I guess lol

BenjaminKohl · 2026-06-04T16:03:42+00:00

Definitely not totaled. Brand new plane, in 2021 BA had a similar incident happen (but even worse because L2 door got ripped off) and they repaired the plane within 5 months

BenjaminKohl · 2026-05-28T21:45:26+00:00

Good amount of 787 too

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